Who knows if the bill will pass, given President Obama’s emerging, uh, robust definition of executive power. But if this signifies anything, it indicates that the now-largely-forgotten Nancy Pelosi/CIA fracas has made congressional Democrats sick and tired of the ability for a small group of members of Congress to endlessly he-said-she-said the press about intelligence activities. If there’s a full intelligence committee briefing about covert action, then any member who publicly misrepresents its substance is vulnerable to a horde of colleagues calling that member out. It’s naive to think that members will stop misrepresenting the contents of classified briefings, or that reporters will suddenly adjudicate between truth and falsity in such matters, but, y’know, dare to dream.